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Seeking Fortune Teller
Gran’s Tampa Totems Table
Everyone was so busy reminding the grands about shady web threats and unknown numbers, they forgot that old men still answer their doors for young girls.
Her patter felt smooth as he ushered her inside.
Then she saw it. Her gran’s Tampa Totems Table.
She knew it wasn’t. Gran’s totems were gone. Like her.
Still, she faltered. Memories flooded in. What would Gran say if she saw her now?
It took only a moment to recover her flow, as she remembered Gran’s final words: “Smile. And don’t forget. Men are all the same. Stroke a mark’s ego and he’s yours.”
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Thanks to Rochelle and Friday Fictioners for the inspiration to write after an extended break. Visit her site for more creative writings.
the hitchhiker
She had been looking for a sign. Was this it? Had the cosmos spread out a tarot reading just for her? She tried to decipher its message, but she was distracted. The man hummed as he cleaned the window shield. What was that song? It seemed so familiar, but the melody struggled against the discordant squeak of the squeegee. She looked at the wall again. Danger. Caution. Dead End. The signs seemed clear. But then she recognized the tune: Let it Go.
Instead of walking away, she opened the car door: “Thanks for the ride.”
Surely, a girl-dad was safe.
Fibbing Friday
This week’s Fibbing Friday was fun!
As Di noted: Something a little different this week courtesy of Jim Adams who has been inventive in making up words and asks us to describe what these, if they existed, are or could be used for.
- Antiplixen: the right-wing movement against adopting a plixen (public library information xchange) approach to k-12 educational reform.
- As part of their efforts to push for school privatization, the antiplixens launched a TikTok campaign demonstrating the dangers of arming public-school students with information.
- Mortangru: an archaic word for over consumption of alcohol.
- Look o’re yonder, Silas gone mortangru. He’ll be hurtin fer sure come morn.
- Clydearum: when a person is obsessed with Clydesdale horses.
- You’ll never get Tammy away from the TV now. That Budweiser commercial is on next and you know she’s never gotten over her clydearum.
- Monogrifrt: A social media trend that claims that all mono audio sound recordings originate from one Deep State source.
- Stupid Sheep. Still Listening to that “american” life Monogrifrt podcrap.
- Ulangabop: TikTok dance craze, circa summer 2024
- Kamala’s ulangabop was bussin’
- Krixashobie: New Anti-Social Anxiety (or maybe eczema or diabetes-it’s hard to tell) Drug
- Side effects of Krizashobie include shortness of breath, anxiety, swelling of the hands and feet, and death.
- Xgreapey: Generation Z describing Generation X’s complaints about being ignored
- Don’t get salty. Why ya have to be such a Xgreapey.
- Knobweg: A popular insult among middle school boys in the 1970s.
- That’s not what your mother said last night, ya knobweg.
- Betalafil: Dating App for Non-Alpha Males
- Find your perfect equal non-domineering partner on Betalafil!
- Dvpslyaran: The indigenous peoples at the center of the popular Fantasy series, “The Moons of Dvpslyaria.”
- The Dvpslyaran had watched in horror as their largest moon splintered into pieces and the blue water covered their beloved land.
Tina Stewart Brakebill 